[Ietf-not43] call for consensus

[hardie at qualcomm.com]

At 2:17 PM -0500 09/09/2003, Eric A. Hall wrote:
>on 9/9/2003 2:11 PM Rick Wesson wrote:
>
>>  i do not know of one LDAP backened whois service in production; this
>>  isn't to say one does not exist -- but that the industry has not
>>  accepted the idea.
>
>The "industry" would accept a dead cat as long as it had been sprinkled
>with XML pixie-dust.

I'd like to remind the working group that we are evaluating specific
proposals for a specific purpose.  Digressions into the generic
preferences for specific types of pixie dust are not in scope.  Discussions
of the use of specific back end services for other, related work
_may_ be in scope for the working group's evaluation, but
they should relate those discussions to specific proposals in a
concrete way.  I would appreciate them being discussed in a separate thread,
in any case, as this call for consensus is taking place after the
expiration of the time limit set for those discussions.
			regards,
				Ted Hardie